Posted 1 year ago on Aug. 20, 2013, 9:09 a.m. EST by GirlFriday
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Keisling told The Raw Story videos like Joseph’s do not advance anything useful in discussing how to help trans students.

“All it does is villainize a group of kids who have it really rough, and who the state of California’s just trying to make it a little easier on,” she said. “This doesn’t put anybody else out. It’s really easy to scare people about it, and I get it, but nobody’s put out, nobody’s made unsafe, nobody’s made unmodest. This is just sad and kind of sick.”

In fact, it explains completely why there is a huge fear of the gay agenda. If the gay agenda gets out then people are going to start demanding it. That means it's going be hard as hell for straight folks to be elected to anything.

That has to be it. In fact, it explains completely why there is a huge fear of the gay agenda. If the gay agenda gets out then people are going to start demanding it. That means it's going be hard as hell for straight folks to be elected to anything.

Thanks. It really irks me that you have groups of people that are dedicated to harming other people which aid and abet the solo twits. The Media Research Center and all of it's donors should be destroyed or tried for murder and/inciting violence.

"Following the publication of a Bloomberg Businessweek article examining and criticizing the American Legislative Exchange Council, (ALEC), MRC immediately came to ALEC's defense. MRC's Iris Somberg accused the authors of the article of accepting "the liberal mantra that corporations are evil and buy support through shadowy groups" and asserted that the article "is thick with one-sided caricatures of conservative policies could have easily been written by a left-wing blogger." [7]

But the MRC piece itself is almost a caricature of the Businessweek article. It alleges that Businessweek authors Brendan Greeley and Alison Fitzgerald find ALEC sinister because it is a "non-profit that promotes limited government, free markets, and federalism." But it ignores the authors' pointed critiques that show ALEC is less about limited government and free markets and more about using government to benefit ALEC's corporate members. For example, the Business week article discusses how the Republican mayor of Lafayette, Louisiana had plans to provide high-speed internet to his rural constituents, but was thwarted by a lobbyist pushing a corporate-sponsored ALEC bill through the Louisiana legislature that would block local government efforts to expand broadband. The Businessweek article points out the bill "was not designed to level the playing field," but to protect entrenched telecommunications interests at the expense of the public interest.

But rather than criticizing the Businessweek article on the merits, or countering the claims that its author's make, MRC's Somberg sets up a convoluted ad hominem. Somberg writes that groups cited in the article had received funding from the Open Society Foundations of George Soros, but does not actually dispute any thing those groups say. (One of the groups Somberg criticizes is the Center for Media and Democracy, which publishes ALECexposed.org as well as Sourcewatch.org. CMD's Open Society grant is not used for its ALEC project, and instead goes towards the national security and surveillance research of CMD's Executive Director, Lisa Graves, who has testified before Congress on such issues.)

The MRC article condescendingly states that the Businessweek authors say that ALEC receives funding from Exxon Mobil ("Nothing says evil like Big Oil cash," Somberg writes), perhaps to set up some sort of false equivalency with other groups indirectly receiving Soros money. But Exxon Mobil is only one of many corporations mentioned in the Businessweek article that fund ALEC. MRC does not mention that ALEC is led by lobbyists, and gets 98% of its funding from corporate interests. The problem with ALEC's corporate funding is not just with the funding per se, but with the fact that those dollars are being used to influence elected officials, and to push laws that govern the lives of all Americans designed to benefit the corporate bottom line. That is hardly comparable to a philanthropist helping fund online investigative journalism organizations.

Hon, I don't know how to break this to you but, everyone knows that corporations donate to both parties. However, and this is what you seem to miss and has been repeatedly explained: ALEC is writing the legislation. You like to skip this step.

The problem with Democrat shills such as yourselves is that you favor the status quo. You're happy with the way your boss Obama runs the show. The fact that he signed the Monsanto Protection Act, that he isn't doing more for LGTB rights, doing more for the environment, etc... doesn't bother you. That's because you compare them with the lowest denominator, the ugly Republicans, to make the Democrats look good. If instead, like real occupiers, you compared the Democrats to the way we should be doing things, then you would realize they aren't doing nearly enough. In fact, the Democrats aren't doing much that's positive at all. Most of what Obama is doing - again Monsanto Protection Act, NSA, etc... is very negative.

Partisan Politics is dead and has no place in Occupy. We are passed that. We hate both your dear Democrats and the Republicans. We hate all parties. We hate the system.

Get with the times. Your pro-Democrat view is passed. Antiquated. It's conservatism.

Lil' Teathuglican fuck, Obama is not up for election. You are going to have to find a legit argument and get back to me. Go back to your team leader and tell him that you failed again. You have nothing to do with Occupy. Never have. Your con is over.

You spend most of your time spinning shit. All over the place. You couldn't stand when people were discussing issues. The shit that you do tend to post is Alex Jones orientated. Websites that cater to Tea Party/Koch head propaganda..............but ya, your not paid to post. You fucking cockroach. You treasonous political whore.

Since you've dragged this thread so far off topic, let's see you prove your duopoly bullshit, by providing TONS of links showing the left wing treating transsexuals in the manner demonstrated in the actual topic....

I Can provide those TONS of links showing what the "right" says and does.

Obviously you aren't versed in the anti trans feminist movement. There's been some wicked twitter wars between the two sides lately. Almost as good as the feminist women of color vs white feminists battles.

You dont think they are using Dems to push their campaign too? You think they are going to leave that rock unturned?

Whos approving the 4 trillion in bailouts? Whos forcing poor into the insurance scam? Whos passing all these other laws? Who just raised taxes on the poor this past year? Who just gave monsanto a pass? Who just gave the right to a trial the door? Who is bombing Yemen? Who is bombing Somolia? Who is bombing Mali? Who is bombing Afghanistan? Who is bombing Pakistan?

All of them.

I post the votes and you say the votes are meaningless. I post the actions and you ignore them. I post hard links that show you whose funding SPN and you change the subject.